Clinical Evaluation Techniques for Injury Risk Assessment in Elite Swimmers: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Evidence concerning a systematic, comprehensive injury risk assessment in the elite swimming population is scarce.

Objective

To evaluate the quality of current literature regarding clinical assessment techniques used to evaluate the presence and/or development of pain/injury in elite swimmers and to categorize objective clinical assessment tools into relevant predictors (constructs) that should consistently be evaluated in injury risk screens of elite swimmers.

Data sources

PubMed, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, PEDro, and the Cochrane Library Reviews were searched through September 2018.

Study selection

Studies were included for review if they assessed a correlation between clinic-based objective measures and the presence and/or development of ac

SUBMITTER: Schlueter KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7734355 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature